Re: Laminate trimmer spindle

Here's some pictures of a Dewalt D660 laminate trimmer
mounted on a Taig CNC mill. Works fine for me. It's noisy
and I don't expect you could run it continuous duty in
a production environment, but for the engraving and
hobby work I do, it done the job.

http://kj.cloudcitydigital.com/pages/taig_mill_d660mount.html

Ken Jenkins
kjenkins@...

> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 23:42:41 +0100
> From: "AbbyKatt" <cnc@...>
> Subject: 1KW, 30KRPM Router as a Spindle/Motor?

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> And I was looking at lots of pretty nice routers. 8K-30KRPM... Not too
> shabby. On most it looks like it'd be pretty easy to remount them...
> So.. A 30,000 RPM spindle would be damned nice to have on a mill,
> especially if you were running really small bits with high-feed rates,
> the motors are powerful - 1KW for many of them, and at router prices,
> it's certainly a lot cheaper than the $3000 industrial spindle motors I
> drool over in engineering magazines.

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